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General Topics => Other Sports (Not Football) => Topic started by: maximumtom on July 03, 2010, 19:44:34 PM

Title: Tennis
Post by: maximumtom on July 03, 2010, 19:44:34 PM
Andy out for another year.:(
Come on Tim !
Title: Tennis
Post by: heather07 on July 03, 2010, 19:52:43 PM
Andy will be Scottish AGAIN:(
Title: Tennis
Post by: Eric on July 03, 2010, 20:56:45 PM
Tooooooo right:D ;)
Title: Tennis
Post by: Scunner on July 03, 2010, 21:43:13 PM
I think any woman who makes a stupid noise when hitting the ball should lose that particular point. That would soon rid the game of it, it's so ridiculous in some matches I have to switch off.
Title: Tennis
Post by: Highlander on July 03, 2010, 21:49:53 PM
Totally agree. There's a time and a place for a woman to make a grunting noise. ;)
Title: Tennis
Post by: maximumtom on July 03, 2010, 21:51:38 PM
Would you like to apply the same rule to martial arts ?  :)
Title: Tennis
Post by: Highlander on July 03, 2010, 21:52:43 PM
And as for equal prize money, well................
Title: Tennis
Post by: Scunner on July 03, 2010, 21:57:19 PM
They've been making noises with their martial arts for centuries - you don't have to look back too far to find that this is something pretty new relatively. Some great female tennis players managed to do very well without sounding like an animal.
Title: Tennis
Post by: Highlander on July 03, 2010, 22:00:15 PM
Annabel Croft
Title: Tennis
Post by: maximumtom on July 04, 2010, 06:34:52 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Scunner

They've been making noises with their martial arts for centuries - you don't have to look back too far to find that this is something pretty new relatively. Some great female tennis players managed to do very well without sounding like an animal.



I don't disagree that the noise is unpleasant. I was a Steffi Graf fan and the noise Monica Seles made in those days used to get on my nerves. I seem to have mellowed with age and seem to have got used to it. However, I don't take the fact that they have been doing it for centuries in martial arts as an excuse; they had to start sometime.  Think, we could have had films like "Enter the Silent Dragon" and "Hush Hour" :D